Supervisors Renew $10K Reward in Attorney's Slaying

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday renewed a $10,000 reward in connection with the shooting death an attorney in Rolling Hills Estates in 2009.

Supervisor Don Knabe, who represents the Palos Verdes Peninsula as part of his Fourth District, recommended extending a the reward for information leading to whoever killed Jeffrey Tidus, a Redondo Beach business owner who was shot in the driveway of his Rolling Hills Estates home on Dec. 7, 2009.

Tidus, a 53-year-old litigator with the downtown firm Baute & Tidus, was shot once in the head in the 4600 block of Sugarhill Drive. He had gone out to retrieve a laptop computer from his car, his wife told investigators, who said Tidus appeared to have been targeted.

"Tidus and his wife had just returned from their Redondo Beach toy store," Knabe said last year after the supervisors intially offered the reward. "That day, they had given a portion of their profits to charity."

Tidus and his wife owned Child's Play Toys in South Redondo Beach.

"Jeff won some very big cases against some very nasty people," Rabbi Steven Silver of Temple Menorah in Redondo Beach, where Tidus was a member, told the Los Angeles Times following Tidus' death.

The attorney's family, friends and clients separately raised $90,000 in reward money, but to date, no one has been arrested in connection with the shooting.

The reward, set to expire Wednesday, will now be good for at least another 90 days.

Anyone with more information on Tidus' shooting was asked to call sheriff's Detectives Joe Espino or Bob Kenney at 323-890-5500.

—City News Service.

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